Employers Rate Job Market for Class of 2017 as “Good”

Even though the overall hiring projection for new college graduates appears flat, most employers view the overall job market for college graduates in a positive light.

More than half of the employers responding to NACE’s Job Outlook 2017 survey rated the market as “good,” with almost 30 percent providing a “very good” rating and an additional 7.6 percent rating the market as “excellent.” (See Figure 1.)

The group rating this year’s college job market as “fair” has dropped to less than 10 percent, and is down to less than half of the group that gave fair ratings to the job market in 2013-14. Additionally, just one respondent gave the overall job market a “poor” rating.